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.\" $Date: 2006/01/23 20:49:13 $ - $Revision: 1.7 $
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.\" This file is part of mmsrip.
.\" Copyright (c) 2005 Nicolas BENOIT.
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.TH mmsrip 1
.SH NAME
mmsrip \- MMS Ripper
.SH SYNOPSIS
\fBmmsrip\fR [-q] [-t] [-k] [-d\fIDELAY\fR] [-g\fIFILE\fR] <[-o\fIFILE\fR] stream url> ...
.SH DESCRIPTION
\fBmmsrip\fR is a client for the proprietary protocol MMS://.
.LP
It saves to a file the content being streamed.
.SH OPTIONS
.IP "\fB-a\fR, \fB--about\fR"
Show some information about \fBmmsrip\fR.
.IP "\fB-d\fR\fIDELAY\fR, \fB--delay\fR=\fIDELAY\fR"
Save the stream during \fIDELAY\fR seconds and exit.
.IP "\fB-g\fR\fIFILE\fR, \fB--debug\fR\fIFILE\fR"
Output debug info to specified file.
.IP "\fB-h\fR, \fB--help\fR"
Show the help message.
.IP "\fB-k\fR, \fB--trick\fR"
Attempt to trick recalcitrant servers by sending alternative local info (\fBmmsrip\fR will act as an old version of MediaPlayer).
.IP "\fB-o\fR\fIFILE\fR, \fB--output\fR=\fIFILE\fR"
Output stream to specified file.
This option should be repeated before every stream urls.
.IP "\fB-q\fR, \fB--quiet\fR"
Enable quiet mode.
Use twice in order to remove error messages as well.
.IP "\fB-t\fR, \fB--test\fR"
Enable test mode. \fBmmsrip\fR will only check the stream availability.
.IP "\fB-v\fR, \fB--version\fR"
Show version number.
.SH ERROR CODES
.IP "0"
No error occured.
.IP "1"
\fBmmsrip\fR was unable to rip the stream (maybe the URL is incorrect).
.IP "2"
The stream was not ripped for unknown reasons. Please retry several times before giving up, you can write a script that loops until the rip succeeds:
.RS
until mmsrip mms://server.com/stream.asf; do sleep 1; done
.RE
.SH AUTHOR
Nicolas BENOIT <nbenoit@tuxfamily.org>
.SH ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This program is highly based on the work of SDP Multimedia (http://get.to/sdp) and Major MMS (http://www.geocities.com/majormms).
They deserve all the credits for it.